DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Ignite vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Ignite vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2015

2008

2013

1992

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.0.36-28, 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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