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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Esgyn

DataJaguar, Inc.

Kinetica

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3 July 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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