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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

origodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

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

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

origodb.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Robert Friberg et al

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1987

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

10 R1, October 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net

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

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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