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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgbigobject.iogeospock.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.GeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2012201420152008
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.0, September 20192.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsLuanoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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 sourceyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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