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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlorigodb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCommunity supported by Red HatOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Robert Friberg et al
Initial release20132014201319842009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.7.6, April 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
HP Open VMSLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnosimple rights management via user accountsRole based authorization
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