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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RRDtool

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgmachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMachbaseMicrosoftTobias Oetiker
Initial release2013201320151999
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V8.0, August 2023V11.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberossimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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