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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssurrealdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSpotifyinformationpartners gmbhSurrealDB LtdTempoIQ
Initial release20132014201520222012
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonomultiple readers, single writerACIDno
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access control

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