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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing serviceA multi-model DBMS and application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMInterSystems
Initial release20132010201419972009
Current release4.1.0, June 20222018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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