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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  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 metricAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial 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
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.kingbase.com.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-server
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATEST
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MicrosoftPercona
Initial release20132010199920152008
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.6, January 2023V8.0, August 2021V18.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
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 integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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