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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Derby vs. Drizzle vs. PouchDB vs. WakandaDB

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Apache Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

1997

2008

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1.1, June 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Immediate Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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