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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Realm vs. RethinkDB vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Realm vs. RethinkDB vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgrealm.iorethinkdb.comsplicemachine.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlrealm.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Splice Machine
Initial release20132014200920142009
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.4.1, August 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyes infoChange ListenersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding inforange basedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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