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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

impala.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

based on H2

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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