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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopWidely used open source RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#169  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#257  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.mysql.comobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldev.mysql.com/­docdocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­hanasplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunObjectBox LimitedSAPSplice Machine
Initial release20131995201720102014
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.3.0, January 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
OS X
Solaris
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoproprietary syntaxnoSQLScript, Ryes infoJava
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricnoneyesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serveryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
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 rolesyesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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