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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

bigobject.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2015

1998

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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