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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Graph Engine vs. MySQL vs. ScyllaDB vs. searchxml

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineWidely used open source RDBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIWide column storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score5.69
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.mysql.comwww.scylladb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.scylladb.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunScyllaDBinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20132010199520152015
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.3.0, January 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux.NETFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyes, Luayes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Apache ImpalaGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMySQLScyllaDBsearchxml
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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