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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaiduIBMGoogle
Initial release20132018201720132014
Current release4.1.0, June 20220.92.02.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGroovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesnono
TriggersnonononoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsno
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