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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GBase vs. H2GIS vs. RRDtool vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial extension of H2Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.h2gis.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.CNRSTobias Oetiker
Initial release20132004201319992009
Current release4.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#JavaC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infobased on H2nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoby using the rrdcached daemonno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesyes infobased on H2nono

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