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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Derby vs. H2 vs. NSDb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score5.30
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.h2database.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationThomas Mueller
Initial release2012199720052017
Current release1.20.3, January 202310.17.1.0, November 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++JavaJavaJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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