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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Sphinx vs. StarRocks vs. TempoIQ

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.starrocks.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSphinx Technologies Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023TempoIQ
Initial release2013200120202012
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.5.1, February 20232.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
MySQL protocol
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
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 KerberosnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple authentication-based access control

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