DBMS > Apache Impala vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

1984

1980

2010

2003

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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