DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2011

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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