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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EventStoreDB vs. H2GIS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Spatial extension of H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

developers.eventstore.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Event Store Limited

CNRS

SAP

Initial release

2013

2012

2013

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

21.2, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

based on H2

yes

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