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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA 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 metricGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftOracle
Initial release20132010200720152011
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.6, January 2023GridGain 8.5.1V123.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes (replicated cache)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesnoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles

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