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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GeoMesa

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.86
Rank#117  Overall
#22  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#123  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#225  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationCCRi and others
Initial release201220142014
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.0.2, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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