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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggeospock.comopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFatCloudGeoSpockOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release2012201220142009
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.0, September 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Java, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBCHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C#Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infovia applicationsnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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