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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. SQLite vs. Valentina Server

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

geospock.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sqlite.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

GeoSpock

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

1993

2000

1999

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0, September 2019

3.4-12

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

via file-system locks

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.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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