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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. PouchDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. PouchDB vs. Trafodion

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 metricLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepouchdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepouchdb.com/­guidestrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticEmbarcaderoApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122010198420122014
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.6, January 2023InterBase 2020, December 20197.1.1, June 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop Connectornoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 integrationyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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