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

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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  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.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational 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
Score0.10
Rank#359  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.harperdb.iojsqldb.org (offline)openmldb.ai
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticHarperDBKonrad von Backstrom4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release20122010201720182020
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.6, January 20233.1, August 20210.8, December 20182024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdynamic schemaschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesnoyes
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 indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
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
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop Connectornono
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 integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, using LMDByes 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 integrationyesyes
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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