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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Manticore Search

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  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 metricHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticCommunity supported by Red HatIBMManticore Software
Initial release20132010201420142017
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.6, January 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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, allEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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