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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. XTDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesvictoriametrics.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaChris DavisMicrosoftVictoriaMetricsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132006201220182019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022v1.91, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++PythonGoClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Synchronous replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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