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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Netezza vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzarethinkdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaiduIBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20132018201320002009
Current release4.1.0, June 20220.92.7.6, April 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes
TriggersnonononoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparknoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers, roles and permissionssimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousers and table-level permissions
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Apache ImpalaHugeGraphInfluxDBNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMRethinkDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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