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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Derby vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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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 comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationMicrosoftMireoAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20121997199220202008
Current release1.20.3, January 202310.17.1.0, November 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesno

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