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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. Newts vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.memcached.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

Initial release

2013

2010

2003

2014

1980

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.6.27, May 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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