DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Graphite vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Graphite vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Chris Davis

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2013

2006

1994

2021

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

by Federation

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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