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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. DuckDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. KeyDB vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DuckDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. KeyDB vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector 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
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgduckdb.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsduckdb.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.keydb.devdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122018201020192013
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, June 20248.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesLuaJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenosimple password-based access control and ACLStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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