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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. searchxml

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

db.apache.org/derby

geospock.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

GeoSpock

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

1997

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.0, September 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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