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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

postgis.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2016

2013

2005

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

LDAP bind authentication

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

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