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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn embedded key-value store for Go.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersSpotify
Initial release2012201320142014
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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