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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release2013198420152004
Current release4.1.0, June 20227.9.10.12, February 2024V1Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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