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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. OpenQM vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

1993

2020

1984

1987

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.4-12

0.5, April 2021

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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