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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GraphDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GraphDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.ontotext.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAtos Convergence CreatorsOntotextMicrosoft
Initial release20132016200020152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release4.1.0, June 2022170310.4, October 2023V110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
LDAPGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoConstraint checkingnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosLDAP bind authenticationDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.yes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Apache ImpalaAtos Standard Common RepositoryGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMMicrosoft Azure AI SearchPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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