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

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

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational 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
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgmachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsql.js.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMachbaseMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201320152012
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V8.0, August 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
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 integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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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