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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricSpatial extension of H2A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.h2gis.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticCNRS
Initial release20132016201020132009
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryesyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesyes infobased on H2no

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