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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. gStore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. gStore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgen.gstore.cnwww.hawkular.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCommunity supported by Red HatIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Timescale
Initial release20132016201420052017
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.2, November 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaCC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDACID
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportednofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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