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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Manticore Search vs. openGauss vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

manticoresearch.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Manticore Software

Huawei and openGauss community

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2017

2019

2018

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

6.0, February 2023

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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