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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCirconus LLC.
Initial release2012201320132017
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes, in Lua
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnono

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