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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

duckdb.org/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Mobiland AG

Cesbit

Initial release

2013

2018

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.1.263, October 2022

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Windows-Profile

simple rights management via user accounts

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