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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
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 StorageLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgbasex.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.basex.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20122007201220092020
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.0, June 20243.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 20160.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernono
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 sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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