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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. H2 vs. NCache

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Description

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

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

basex.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.h2database.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.basex.org

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

Cloudflare

Thomas Mueller

Alachisoft

Initial release

2012

2007

2018

2005

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

10.7, August 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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