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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EDB Postgres vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EDB Postgres vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEnterpriseDBGoogleSiteWhereSplice Machine
Initial release20122005201420102014
Current release1.20.3, January 202314, December 20212.1.12, February 20173.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoJava
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneSharding infobased on HBaseShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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