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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Kylin vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

impala.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

postgis.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

kylin.apache.org/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2015

2005

2020

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.1.0, July 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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