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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Tarantool

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCirconus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.VK
Initial release20122005201720152008
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3.3, December 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 compliantnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes, in LuanoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyesnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenononoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenorights management via user accountsAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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