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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GeoSpock vs. RavenDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 HBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orggeospock.comravendb.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgravendb.net/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationGeoSpockHibernating RhinosThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2012201420102009
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.0, September 20195.4, July 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes
TriggersnononoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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 sourceyesnono
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 can be defined per tableAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes infousers and table-level permissions

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