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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. DuckDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph vs. MonetDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgduckdb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmemgraph.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlduckdb.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmemgraph.com/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMemgraph LtdMonetDB BV
Initial release20132018201320172004
Current release4.1.0, June 20220.10, February 20242.7.6, April 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++GoC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication using RAFTnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, 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.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnosimple rights management via user accountsUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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