DBMS > Apache Impala vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LevelDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LevelDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Amazon Web Services

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2016

2011

2021

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.10, January 2022

1.23, February 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

yes

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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