DBMS > Aerospike vs. Apache Impala vs. Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer
System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Apache Impala vs. Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer
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| Name | Aerospike  previously called Citrusleaf Xexclude from comparison | Apache Impala Xexclude from comparison | Cassandra Xexclude from comparison | InfluxDB Xexclude from comparison | Microsoft Azure Data Explorer Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database | Analytic DBMS for Hadoop | Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB Optimized for write access | DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics | Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary database model | Document store Graph DBMS leveraging Apache TinkerpopKey-value store Spatial DBMS | Relational DBMS | Wide column store | Time Series DBMS | Relational DBMS column oriented | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary database models | Document store | Vector DBMS starting with release V5 | Spatial DBMS with GEO package | Document store If a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types/dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell Event Store this is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)Spatial DBMS Search engine support for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engineTime Series DBMS see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/time-series-analysis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | aerospike.com | impala.apache.org | cassandra.apache.org | www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview | azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technical documentation | docs.aerospike.com | impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html | cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest | docs.influxdata.com/influxdb | docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Developer | Aerospike | Apache Software Foundation Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera | Apache Software Foundation Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook | Microsoft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Initial release | 2012 | 2013 | 2008 | 2013 | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current release | 7.0, November 2023 | 4.1.0, June 2022 | 4.1.3, July 2023 | 2.7.6, April 2024 | cloud service with continuous releases | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| License Commercial or Open Source | Open Source Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available | Open Source Apache Version 2 | Open Source Apache version 2 | Open Source MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available | commercial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Implementation language | C | C++ | Java | Go | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server operating systems | Linux | Linux | BSD Linux OS X Windows | Linux OS X through Homebrew | hosted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data scheme | schema-free | yes | schema-free | schema-free | Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | yes | yes | Numeric data and Strings | yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | no | no | no | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary indexes | yes | yes | restricted only equality queries, not always the best performing solution | no | all fields are automatically indexed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SQL Support of SQL | no | SQL-like DML and DDL statements | SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL) | SQL-like query language | Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APIs and other access methods | JDBC Proprietary protocol TinkerPop Gremlin | JDBC ODBC | Proprietary protocol CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language) Thrift | HTTP API JSON over UDP | Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supported programming languages | .Net C C# C++ Erlang Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Lua Perl PHP Python Ruby | All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC | C# C++ Clojure Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript Node.jsPerl PHP Python Ruby Scala | .Net Clojure Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Lisp Perl PHP Python R Ruby Rust Scala | .Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server-side scripts Stored procedures | user defined functions with Lua | yes user defined functions and integration of map-reduce | no | no | Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Triggers | no | no | yes | no | yes see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding | Sharding | Sharding no "single point of failure" | Sharding in enterprise version only | Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | selectable replication factor | selectable replication factor | selectable replication factor Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible | selectable replication factor in enterprise version only | yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | yes Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce | yes query execution via MapReduce | yes | no | Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration | Eventual Consistency | Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency can be individually decided for each write operation | Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | Atomic execution of operations | no | no Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | no | no | yes Depending on used storage engine | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| User concepts Access control | Access rights for users and roles with Enterprise Edition only | Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos | Access rights for users can be defined per object | simple rights management via user accounts | Azure Active Directory Authentication | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Aerospike previously called Citrusleaf | Apache Impala | Cassandra | InfluxDB | Microsoft Azure Data Explorer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specific characteristics | Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable... » more | Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well... » more | InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Competitive advantages | Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically... » more | No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for... » more | Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typical application scenarios | Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads... » more | Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product... » more | IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key customers | Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services... » more | Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best... » more | InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Market metrics | Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance... » more | Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100. » more | Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensing and pricing models | Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition » more | Apache license Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available... » more | Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| News | Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024 Aerospike a Winner in 2024 Business Sustainability Awards New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache And Database Platforms Aerospike Recognized by Independent Research Firm Among Notable Vendors in Vector Databases Report Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners | An Introduction to David Jones-Gilardi, Developer Relations Introducing Tejas Kumar, Developer Relations Engineer Indexing All of Wikipedia on a Laptop An Introduction to Phil Nash, Developer Relations Focus on Creativity, Not Clusters: DataStax Mission Control in Action! | Scaling Data Collection: Solving Renewable Energy Challenges with InfluxDB Deadman Alerts with Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud 3.0 Chasing the Skies: Monitoring Flights with InfluxDB Monitoring Your Cloud Environments and Applications with InfluxDB Webinar Recap: Unleash the Full Potential of Your Time Series Data with InfluxDB and AWS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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