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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et alSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2013201720102009 infounder the name LiveDB1994
Current release4.1.0, June 2022Nov 20, November 202116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.NetC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined procedures and functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesnoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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