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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JanusGraph vs. SAP IQ vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JanusGraph vs. SAP IQ vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storejanusgraph.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsqream.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.janusgraph.orghelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBMLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSAP, formerly SybaseSQream Technologies
Initial release20132017201719942017
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.00.6.3, February 202316.1 SPS04, April 20192022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyesyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexerhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationyesSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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