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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. DataFS vs. KairosDB vs. SQream DB

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

newdatabase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

sqream.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

kairosdb.github.io

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Mobiland AG

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

2018

2013

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.1.263, October 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Windows-Profile

simple password-based access control

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