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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. mSQL vs. Prometheus vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. mSQL vs. Prometheus vs. Transbase

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlprometheus.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeprometheus.io/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBMHughes TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132017199420151987
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.04.4, October 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CGoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationnoneyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutablenoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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