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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. SAP IQ vs. SingleStore vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.singlestore.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.singlestore.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

SAP, formerly Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

1994

2013

2010

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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