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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbangdb.combasex.orggeospock.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.basex.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBBaseX GmbHGeoSpockAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012201220072008
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202110.7, August 20232.0, September 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnono
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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