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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Machbase Neo vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Machbase Neo vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismachbase.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaInterSystemsMachbaseSimer Plaha
Initial release2013201820132018
Current release4.1.0, June 20222023.3, June 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CScala
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyessimple password-based access controlno
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