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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. CouchDB vs. GeoSpock vs. XTDB vs. Yanza

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS
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Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yanza.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeoSpockJuxt Ltd.Yanza
Initial release2013200520192015
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.3.3, December 20232.0, September 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJava, JavascriptClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation formatno
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 infovia viewstemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCHTTP REST
JDBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all datanone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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