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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgbasex.orggeospock.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.basex.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHGeoSpockAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012201220072008
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 202410.7, August 20232.0, September 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnono
Triggersnonoyes infovia eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonomultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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