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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. mSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Hughes Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

1994

2008

2001

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

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

none

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

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