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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. TinkerGraph vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.mysql.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

dev.mysql.com/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Yandex

Initial release

2013

1995

2009

2023

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Groovy
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

yes

based on H2

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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