DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. BaseX vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. BaseX vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Primary database model

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Event Store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Website

impala.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

basex.org

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.basex.org

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Axibase Corporation

BaseX GmbH

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Initial release

2013

2007

2015

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

15585

10.7, August 2023

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

XQuery supports types

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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