DBMS > Apache Impala vs. ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

clickhouse.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

manticoresearch.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Clickhouse Inc.

Softmotions

Manticore Software

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

2017

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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