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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Typesense

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbtypesense.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbtypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFoundationDB
Initial release20122014200920132015
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.10.0, March 20226.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJCacheRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Linearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynono

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