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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Yaacomo

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.geomesa.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2013201520142009
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuano
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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