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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. ObjectBox

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  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 HBaseAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgbigobject.ioobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iodocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release2012201420152017
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
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)
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
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 functionsLuano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
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 sourceyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyes
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