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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

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

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CCRi and others

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

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.

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

On-device Vector Database for Dart/Flutter
21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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