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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFull-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 ElasticSearchNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRackspaceThomas MuellerSpotifyDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122013200520142013
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC
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 sourcenoyesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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