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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Graphite vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrdf4j.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iordf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaChris DavisSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Rockset
Initial release2013200620042019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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