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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Memgraph vs. STSdb

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchmemgraph.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticMemgraph LtdSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132013201020172011
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.6, January 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoUsers, roles and permissionsno
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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