DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

quasar.ai

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle

quasardb

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2008

2007

2009

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

14.1, August 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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