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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DataFS vs. Derby vs. H2 vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Mobiland AG

Apache Software Foundation

Thomas Mueller

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2018

1997

2005

2006

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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