DBMS > Apache Impala vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

MonetDB BV

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2004

2010

2018

2023

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Journaling Streams

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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