DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. eXtremeDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. eXtremeDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

McObject

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

2015

2001

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

8.2, 2021

10 R1, October 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

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)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

yes

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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