DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

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

cassandra.apache.org

machbase.com

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

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

machbase.com/dbms

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Machbase

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2016

2008

2013

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

4.1.3, July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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