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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Rockset vs. Sequoiadb vs. Stardog

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
rockset.comwww.sequoiadb.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.rockset.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHEAVY.AI, Inc.RocksetSequoiadb Ltd.Stardog-Union
Initial release20132016201920132010
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.10, January 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 supportednono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP RESTproprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoJavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnonononoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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