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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

bigobject.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bigobject.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

BigObject, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2015

2008

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

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