DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Elasticsearch vs. Geode vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Elasticsearch vs. Geode vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

geode.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Elastic

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2008

2010

2002

2018

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

8.6, January 2023

1.1, February 2017

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using RocksDB

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights per client and object definable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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