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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Kuzu

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

geode.apache.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.kuzudb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2013

2002

2014

2018

2022

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.1, February 2017

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

0.4.2, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

none

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

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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