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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsWidely used RDBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
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Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#320  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1221.06
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.oracle.com/­databasetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedoc.nuodb.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBMDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Oracle
Initial release20132017201319802009
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.023c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsschema-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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesJava, SQLPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocolACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCCyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary tableyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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