DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM

Percona

SAP

Initial release

2013

2012

2017

2015

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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