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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. LMDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaChris DavisRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Symas
Initial release2013200619912011
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.70.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyoptional
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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