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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebolt vs. NuoDB vs. Prometheus

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopIn-memory caching systemHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgcachelot.iowww.firebolt.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseprometheus.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.firebolt.iodoc.nuodb.comprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20132015202020132015
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesNumeric data only
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Memcached protocol.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonedepending on storage layeryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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