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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EJDB vs. GBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.gbase.cnwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSoftmotionsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Oracle
Initial release20132012200420112017
Current release4.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c23.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC, Java, PythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptionalyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.noyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoyesAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control

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