DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

IBM

LeanXcale

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2015

1992

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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