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

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

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgmachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchterminusdb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMachbaseMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20132013201520182020
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V8.0, August 2023V111.0.0, January 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceJournaling Streamsnone
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberossimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationRole-based access controlno

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