DBMS > Apache Impala vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Event Store Limited

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

2012

2010

2004

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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