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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaiduMicrosoftByteDance, originally TerarkTranswarp
Initial release2013201819892016
Current release4.1.0, June 20220.9SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGroovy
Java
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
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.noyesyesyes
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-standardno

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