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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerquasardbSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132008200920112018
Current release4.1.0, June 20227.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCHTTP API.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoRole-based access control

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