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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. LeanXcale vs. NSDb vs. RavenDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.leanxcale.comnsdb.ioravendb.net
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlnsdb.io/­Architectureravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaLeanXcaleHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20122013201520172010
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 20225.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
Java
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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