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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.firebolt.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.firebolt.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2020

2017

1989

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Active-active shard replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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