DBMS > Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. OpenSearch

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

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.08
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Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

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

nsdb.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2013

2012

2017

2021

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search 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

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

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

Java
Scala

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

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

yes

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

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

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

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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