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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Faircom DB vs. LokiJS vs. Splunk vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.splunk.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

FairCom Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

1979

2014

2003

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

none

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

atomic operations within a single collection possible

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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 with additional protections for files

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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