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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Graphite vs. NuoDB vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaserdf4j.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.nuodb.comrdf4j.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaChris DavisDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132006201320042022
Current release4.1.0, June 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++JavaRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava, SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocolACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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