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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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 processesA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgeode.apache.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgeode.apache.org/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.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.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20122008201220022006
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20179.6.1, 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 Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)Solr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCin-process shared libraryJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
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 nodeoptimistic locking
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 sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights per client and object definableyes

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