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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Geode vs. Newts vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Geode vs. Newts vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggeode.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgeode.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.OpenNMS GroupByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200220142016
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, January 20241.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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 sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights per client and object definablenono

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