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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. dBASE vs. NSDb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.dbase.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasensdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAxibase CorporationAsthon Tate
Initial release20122013201319792017
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 202215585dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users and roles

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