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

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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  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 HBaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial 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 DBMSRelational 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
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.comgeospock.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourceshbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationExasolGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2012201420002008
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 2.0commercialcommercialOpen 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
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 compliantyesyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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 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-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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