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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rockset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2015

2019

1994

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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