DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

Microsoft

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2016

2010

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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