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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmachbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegraphite.readthedocs.iomachbase.com/­dbmshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChris DavisMachbaseSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20122005200620131994
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3.3, December 2023V8.0, August 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangPythonC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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