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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.Widely used open source RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.mysql.compostgis.netwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20132013199520052014
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.4.0, April 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++GoC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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