DBMS > Apache Impala vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

1984

1994

2012

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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