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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRDF storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrdf4j.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCirconus LLC.MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132017201220042011
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V0.10.20, January 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luanoyesno
TriggersnononoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnoBased on Windows Authentication

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