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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KeyDB vs. SingleStore

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.singlestore.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.heavy.aidocs.keydb.devdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSoftmotionsHEAVY.AI, Inc.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release20132012201620192013
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.10, January 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++ and CUDAC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinuxLinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoLuayes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Apache ImpalaEJDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KeyDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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