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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. FatDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

FatCloud

SAP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2012

2010

2009

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

via applications

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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