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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. DataFS vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

newdatabase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Mobiland AG

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2018

2014

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.1.263, October 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

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

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

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

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Windows-Profile

yes

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