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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP IQ

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA 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 metricA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.graphengine.iojsqldb.org (offline)www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticMicrosoftKonrad von BackstromSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20122010201020181994
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.6, January 20230.8, December 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM.NETLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesfunctions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop ConnectornoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceMemcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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