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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. OpenMLDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used open source RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.nuodb.com

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

1995

2013

2020

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.0.0, July 2024

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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