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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Brytlyt vs. Heroic vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbrytlyt.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexterminusdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.brytlyt.iospotify.github.io/­heroicwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBrytlytSpotifyAlessandro FurieriDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132016201420082018
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0, August 20235.0.0, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++ and CUDAJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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