DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

drill.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

drill.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2017

2012

2014

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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