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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP HANA

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

geospock.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

GeoSpock

Amazon Web Services

SAP

Initial release

2013

2021

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0, September 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

temporal, categorical

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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