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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

quasar.ai

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

quasardb

STS Soft SC

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2009

2011

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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