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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iojanusgraph.orgwww.monetdb.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iodocs.janusgraph.orgwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMonetDB BVQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132015201720042009
Current release4.1.0, June 20220.6.3, February 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuayesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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