DBMS > Apache Impala vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

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Name

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

vitess.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

2011

2016

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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