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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. Netezza vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 developmentData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSSearch engine
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
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzasphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.coveo.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCoveoIBMSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012201220002001
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
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 dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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