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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20132012201820132013
Current release4.1.0, June 20220.92.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducelimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoJava, SQL
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoin enterprise version onlydata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissionssimple rights management via user accountsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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Apache ImpalaFirebase Realtime DatabaseHugeGraphInfluxDBNuoDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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