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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EXASOL vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.exasol.com

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.exasol.com/resources

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Exasol

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2013

2000

1995

1984

2020

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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