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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. NSDb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StoragedBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orghive.apache.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homensdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20121979201420122017
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 20194.0.5, February 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
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 layer
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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