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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. mSQL vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

origodb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

doc.nuodb.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Hughes Technologies

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2013

1994

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role based authorization

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