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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. SAP HANA vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

SAP

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

2023

2010

1985

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.0, March 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
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
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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