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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#253  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSpotifyMicrosoftPercona
Initial release20132014201620192015
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.3.4, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoTransact SQLnoJavaScript
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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Apache ImpalaHeroicMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusPercona Server for MongoDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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