DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Newts vs. NuoDB vs. OushuDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Newts vs. NuoDB vs. OushuDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

impala.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.nuodb.com

www.oushu.com/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

OpenNMS Group

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oushu

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

2004

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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