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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. H2 vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. H2 vs. Splunk

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orggeospock.comwww.h2database.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockThomas MuellerSplunk Inc.
Initial release2012200820052003
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20122.0, September 20192.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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