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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Newts vs. Pinecone vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

OpenNMS Group

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

2014

2019

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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