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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Datomic vs. ObjectBox vs. SiriDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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 durabilityLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
siridb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.siridb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCognitectObjectBox LimitedCesbit
Initial release2013201220172017
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.7075, December 20234.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freeBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes 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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnoyessimple rights management via user accounts
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