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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. HBase vs. Linter vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. HBase vs. Linter vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableRDBMS for high security requirementsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orghbase.apache.orglinter.ru
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetrelex.ruOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122014200819902009
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.0.5, February 20242.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLErlang
Triggersnonoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcedepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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