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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. RavenDB vs. SiriDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.datomic.comduckdb.orgravendb.netsiridb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.datomic.comduckdb.org/­docsravendb.net/­docsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCognitectHibernating RhinosCesbit
Initial release20132012201820102017
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.6735, June 20230.10, February 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureC++C#C
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoNumeric data
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnonoAuthorization levels configured per client per databasesimple rights management via user accounts

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