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

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

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. 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

Ultra-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 primitives

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.harperdb.io

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Elastic

HarperDB

Konrad von Backstrom

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

2018

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

8.6, January 2023

3.1, August 2021

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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