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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. LeanXcale vs. NebulaGraph vs. Netezza vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. LeanXcale vs. NebulaGraph vs. Netezza vs. RavenDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaravendb.net
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.nebula-graph.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaLeanXcaleVesoft Inc.IBMHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20132015201920002010
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorCausal Clustering using Raft protocolSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAuthorization levels configured per client per database
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache ImpalaLeanXcaleNebulaGraphNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMRavenDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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