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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. HarperDB vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. HarperDB vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  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 metricUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Well established RDBMSJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented 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
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.harperdb.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresjsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticHarperDBActian CorporationKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release2012201020171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2018
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.6, January 20233.1, August 202111.2, May 20220.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyesno
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesfunctions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, using LMDByesyes infousing RocksDB
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 sourceAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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