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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Hypertable vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegeospock.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationGeoSpockHypertable Inc.
Initial release2012201320092014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.20.3, January 2023155852.0, September 20190.9.8.11, March 201610 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonotemporal, categoricalrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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