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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SurrealDB vs. TerarkDB

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#204	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

surrealdb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

surrealdb.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

1989

2022

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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