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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Qdrant vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Qdrant vs. Realm

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
realm.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicqdrant.tech/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCNRSSpotifyQdrantRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20132013201420212014
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infobased on H2nono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2yesCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infobased on H2Key-based authenticationyes

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