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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.monetdb.orgswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.monetdb.org/­Documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MonetDB BVSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20131991200420182018
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.7Dec2023 (11.49), December 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 KerberosAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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