DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. Graphite vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. Graphite vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-websiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bangdb.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSachin Sinha, BangDBChris DavisCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132012200620172001
Current release4.1.0, June 2022BangDB 2.0, October 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++C, C++PythonCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsNumeric data onlyyes infoNumeric datano
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL like support with command line toolnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononono
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes (enterprise version only)nosimple rights management via user accountsno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache ImpalaBangdbGraphiteSiriDBSphinx
DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Impala becomes Top-Level Project
28 November 2017, SDTimes.com

Apache Impala 4 Supports Operator Multi-Threading
29 July 2021, iProgrammer

Cloudera brings Apache Iceberg data lake format to its Data Platform
30 June 2022, SiliconANGLE News

Hudi: Uber Engineering’s Incremental Processing Framework on Apache Hadoop
12 March 2017, Uber

Updates & Upserts in Hadoop Ecosystem with Apache Kudu
27 October 2017, KDnuggets

provided by Google News

Try out the Graphite monitoring tool for time-series data
29 October 2019, TechTarget

The Billion Data Point Challenge: Building a Query Engine for High Cardinality Time Series Data
10 December 2018, Uber

Getting Started with Monitoring using Graphite
23 January 2015, InfoQ.com

Real-Time Performance and Health Monitoring Using Netdata
2 September 2019, CNX Software

Collecting, storing, and analyzing your DevOps workloads with open-source Telegraf, Amazon Timestream, and Grafana
25 November 2020, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Switching From Sphinx to MkDocs Documentation — What Did I Gain and Lose?
2 February 2024, Towards Data Science

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

Beyond the Concert Hall: 5 Organizations Making a Difference in Classical Music in 2018
22 December 2018, WQXR Radio

Here’s Why Russia Is Cracking Down on Google
23 February 2015, TIME

The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
29 October 2019, The Hacker News

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Present your product here