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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesvictoriametrics.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMicrosoftVictoriaMetricsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122013201220182019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022v1.91, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++GoClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Synchronous replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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