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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Galaxybase vs. GridGain vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2017

2007

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

Nov 20, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

commercial, open source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined procedures and functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Role-based access control

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple password-based access control

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