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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
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 metricEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#367  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticGoogleHughes TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20122010201419942010
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.6, January 20232.1.12, February 20174.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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, allnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
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 integrationyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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