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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Google BigQuery vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

impala.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Google

Percona

Initial release

2013

2010

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

via In-Memory Engine

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)

Access rights for users and roles

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