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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. DolphinDB vs. Newts vs. Stardog vs. YottaDB

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Name

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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.stardog.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.stardog.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DolphinDB, Inc

OpenNMS Group

Stardog-Union

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

2018

2014

2010

2001

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST
Java API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Java

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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