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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GridGain vs. OpenQM vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2007

1993

2020

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

3.4-12

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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