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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

rockset.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rockset.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rockset

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2015

2019

1987

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3 July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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
Proprietary native API

.Net

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
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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