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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Solr vs. Splice Machine

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgsolr.apache.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationSplice Machine
Initial release201320062014
Current release4.1.0, June 20229.6.0, April 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava pluginsyes infoJava
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducespark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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