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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  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 developmentTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.coveo.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.coveo.comspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCoveoSpotifyBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release2012201220141999
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID
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 sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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