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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2013

2001

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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