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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationMicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release2012201420102018
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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