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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Quasardb vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Quasardb vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquasar.aitempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMicrosoftquasardbTempoIQJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132012200920122019
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.14.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languagenolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenononono
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple authentication-based access control

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