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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Weaviate B.V.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2016

1995

2019

2009

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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