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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Search engineDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20122016201020101994
Current release1.20.3, January 202317038.6, January 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnono
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.noyesnonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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 sourceyesMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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