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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEsgynCNRSSpotifyPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20122015201320142019
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes infobased on H2yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2

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