DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Axibase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Axibase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache

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Name

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

Axibase Corporation

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Initial release

2013

2016

2013

2015

2005

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

15585

5.3, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

using Azure authentication

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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