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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. eXtremeDB vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Widely used open source RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

dev.mysql.com/doc

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

McObject

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2013

2001

1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.2, 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based authorization

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