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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. mSQL vs. NCache vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. mSQL vs. NCache vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheprometheus.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsprometheus.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHughes TechnologiesAlachisoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20131994200520152009
Current release4.1.0, June 20224.4, October 20215.3.3, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGoErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumeric data onlyno
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoErlang
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoby Federationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)noyes, using Riak Security
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache ImpalamSQL infoMini SQLNCachePrometheusRiak KV
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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