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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. FeatureBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.featurebase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2017

2010

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2022, May 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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