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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmachbase.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeoSpockMachbase
Initial release201320142013
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0, September 2019V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.no
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenosimple password-based access control

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