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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. OpenSearch vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Amazon Web Services

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2008

2021

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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