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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Google BigQuery vs. NCache vs. TigerGraph

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Google

Alachisoft

Initial release

2013

2010

2005

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role-based access control

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