DBMS > Apache Impala vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

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

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

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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