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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopSpatial extension of H2TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgmachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCNRSMachbaseMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20132013201320122019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2selectable replication factoryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infobased on H2simple password-based access controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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