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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

dgraph.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.databend.com

dgraph.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Databend Labs

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2013

2021

2016

2005

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.0.59, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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