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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Embarcadero

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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