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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbimpala.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFairCom CorporationSpotify
Initial release20192013197920142013
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V3, October 20202.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.simple rights management via user accounts
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Amazon DocumentDBApache ImpalaFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEHeroicInfluxDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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