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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Realm

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Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

drill.apache.org/docs

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

realm.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

none

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

based on H2

yes

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