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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. QuestDB vs. SQLite

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverquestdb.iowww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverquestdb.io/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaManticore SoftwareMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20132017198920142000
Current release4.1.0, June 20226.0, February 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20223.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noCan index from XMLyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
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 integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache ImpalaManticore SearchMicrosoft SQL ServerQuestDBSQLite
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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