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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Netezza vs. SpaceTime vs. Sqrrl vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Netezza vs. SpaceTime vs. Sqrrl vs. Yaacomo

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.mireo.com/­spacetimesqrrl.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBMMireoAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132000202020122009
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceLinuxLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementednoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnono
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infomaking use of Hadoophorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)selectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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