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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. Memcached vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingWidely used open source RDBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score20.81
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggeospock.comwww.memcached.orgwww.mysql.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidev.mysql.com/­dochelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeoSpockDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunSAP
Initial release2013200319952010
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0, September 20191.6.25, March 20248.3.0, January 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes infoproprietary syntaxSQLScript, R
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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