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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. NuoDB vs. Prometheus vs. Spark SQL

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseprometheus.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdoc.nuodb.comprometheus.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20132023201320152014
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0, March 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++GoScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuaJava, SQLnono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infotunable commit protocolnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPassword-based authenticationStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnono

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