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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggeode.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Gigaspaces TechnologiesBaidu
Initial release20132002200020182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.1, February 201715.5, September 20200.910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, event driven architecturenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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