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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Galaxybase vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Galaxybase vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAnalytics Platform for Big Dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggalaxybase.comwww.splunk.comsqream.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.sqream.com
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Splunk Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2013201720032017
Current release4.1.0, June 2022Nov 20, November 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined procedures and functionsyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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