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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

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

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.heavy.ai

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2016

2018

1994

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.10, January 2022

0.8, December 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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