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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. jBASE vs. RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Tobias Oetiker

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

1991

1999

2006

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.7

1.8.0, 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

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

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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