DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Coveo vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Coveo vs. Snowflake

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Name

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

basex.org

www.coveo.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.basex.org

docs.coveo.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Coveo

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2007

2012

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1703

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XQuery supports types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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