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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2001

2012

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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