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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. H2 vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. H2 vs. Heroic

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgblueflood.iogithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.dolthub.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRackspaceDoltHub IncThomas MuellerSpotify
Initial release20122013201820052014
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTCLI Client
HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infocurrently in alpha releaseJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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