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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

nsdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Rocket Software

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

1985

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

yes

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