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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopServerless Time Series DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHyprcubd, Inc.MicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release2013201520052018
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V13.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++GoCScala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberostoken accessyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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