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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. HyperSQL vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

prometheus.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2001

2015

2004

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

by Federation

none

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

simple authentication-based access control

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