DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Badger vs. Bangdb vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Badger vs. Bangdb vs. ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bangdb.com

clickhouse.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.bangdb.com

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DGraph Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2017

2012

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL like support with command line tool

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

key based and custom

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

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

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes

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