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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. BaseX vs. ObjectBox

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebasex.orgobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgdocs.basex.orgdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationBaseX GmbHObjectBox Limited
Initial release20122014201320072017
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191558511.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnomultiple readers, single writerACID
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 sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes
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