DBMS > Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. SQream DB

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

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	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.mysql.com

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Esgyn

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

2015

1995

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5, January 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

yes

none

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

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

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