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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmachbase.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.iomachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20122012201320131984
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.2.2, November 2018V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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