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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotify
Initial release20122013201320092014
Current release1.20.3, January 2023155853.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonononoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
GoJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenono

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