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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Widely used in-process key-value store

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Percona

Initial release

2013

1994

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users and roles

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