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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. Memgraph vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. Memgraph vs. Vitess

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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.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 metricAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchmemgraph.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlmemgraph.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHElasticMemgraph LtdThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122007201020172013
Current release1.20.3, January 202310.7, August 20238.6, January 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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