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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engineMultivalue DBMS
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
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.hawkular.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticCommunity supported by Red HatManticore SoftwareRocket Software
Initial release20132010201420171985
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 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanoptional
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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnonoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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