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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. DolphinDB vs. Ehcache vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

www.ehcache.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DolphinDB, Inc

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Sybase, SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2018

2009

1993

2000

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.10.0, March 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JCache

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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