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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. OushuDB vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	10.22
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	0.04
Rank	#358	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	2.08
Rank	#116	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#242	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

pouchdb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Oushu

Apache Software Foundation

Splice Machine

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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