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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Faircom DB vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Faircom DB vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFairCom CorporationSpotifySybase, SAPinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20131979201419932015
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V12, November 20201.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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