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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1992

2000

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

17, July 2015

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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