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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Rockset

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kingbase.com.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrockset.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCirconus LLC.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MicrosoftRockset
Initial release20132017199920122019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V0.10.20, January 2018V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C and JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonoyesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Standard with numerous extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDoptimistic lockingno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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