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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

tempoiq.com (offline)

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Oracle

TempoIQ

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2011

2012

1987

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

23.3, December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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