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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. GeoMesa vs. mSQL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.geomesa.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.coveo.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCoveoCCRi and othersHughes Technologies
Initial release2012201220141994
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.0.5, February 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
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 sourcedepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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