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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgeode.apache.orgwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgeode.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSoftmotionsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.CCRi and others
Initial release20122008201220022014
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20175.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCin-process shared libraryJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights per client and object definableyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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