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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. chDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb

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Name

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

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

doc.chdb.io

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2013

2023

2014

2018

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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