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DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#100  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldbpostgis.nettempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSpotifyGoogleTempoIQ
Initial release20132014201120052012
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.23, February 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple authentication-based access control

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