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

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 scaleTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggeospock.commachbase.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeoSpockMachbasequasardb
Initial release201320132009
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0, September 2019V8.0, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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, categoricalyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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