DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. FeatureBase vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. FeatureBase vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.featurebase.com

www.mysql.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.featurebase.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Elastic

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

1995

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

8.6, January 2023

2022, May 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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