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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. etcd vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A distributed reliable key-value store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2013

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.4, August 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

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

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