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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Impala vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. InfluxDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbimpala.apache.orgwww.exasol.comgeospock.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaExasolGeoSpock
Initial release2019201320002013
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0, September 20192.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDnono
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.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple rights management via user accounts
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Amazon DocumentDBApache ImpalaEXASOLGeoSpockInfluxDB
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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