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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. searchxml

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGoogleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2012201320082015
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceusing Google App Engineyes infoon the application server
TriggersnonoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsmultiple readers, single writer
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 KerberosAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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