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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. JaguarDB vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. XTDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsWidely used in-process key-value storeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.commaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDataJaguar, Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132015198419942019
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.3 July 20237.9.10.12, February 202418.1.40, May 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 Kerberosrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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