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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewsql.js.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifyAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132023201420132012
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0, March 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuanonono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accountsno
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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