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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A 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 metricBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHEnterpriseDBElastic
Initial release20122007200520102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.2, August 202414, December 20218.6, January 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 sourcenoMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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