DBMS > Apache Impala vs. FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. mSQL vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. mSQL vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

kairosdb.github.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

1983

2013

1994

1995

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

4.4, October 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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