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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.aisiridb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.siridb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCirconus LLC.quasardbCesbitApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132017200920172014
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in LuanonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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