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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GridDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

griddb.net

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

siridb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.griddb.net

docs.heavy.ai

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Toshiba Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2013

2016

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.1, August 2022

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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 rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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