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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. InfluxDB vs. Milvus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SingleStore

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaOracleSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20132013201920112013
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.7.6, April 20242.3.4, January 202423.3, December 20238.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++, GoJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsVector, Numeric and Stringoptionalyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononoyes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integrationno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberossimple rights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Apache ImpalaInfluxDBMilvusOracle NoSQLSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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