DBMS > Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

GeoSpock

Google

SAP

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2014

2010

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Appliance or cloud-service

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

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