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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Databricks vs. Graph Engine vs. ObjectBox

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.databricks.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDatabricksMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release2013201320102017
Current release4.1.0, June 20224.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted.NETAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCPython
R
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions and aggregatesyesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes
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Apache ImpalaDatabricksGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityObjectBox
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