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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb

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Name	Apache Drill  Xexclude from comparison	Elasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison	JSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
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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	JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Search engine	Document store Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.77 Rank #109   Overall #20   Document stores #57   Relational DBMS	Score 156.00 Rank #8   Overall #1   Search engines
Website	drill.apache.org	www.elastic.co/­elasticsearch	jsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentation	drill.apache.org/­docs	www.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
Developer	Apache Software Foundation	Elastic	Konrad von Backstrom
Initial release	2012	2010	2018
Current release	1.19.0, June 2021	7.8.0, June 2020	0.8, December 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2	Open Source Elastic License	Open Source
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Windows	All OS with a Java VM	Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no
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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes All search fields are automatically indexed	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages	C++	.Net Groovy Community Contributed Clients Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	yes	functions in JavaScript
Triggers	no	yes by using the 'percolation' feature	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	ES-Hadoop Connector	no
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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	Depending on the underlying data source	yes	yes using RocksDB
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
User concepts Access control	Depending on the underlying data source
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