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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggeospock.comgreenplum.orgwww.h2database.commachbase.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockPivotal Software Inc.Thomas MuellerMachbase
Initial release2012200520052013
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.0, September 20197.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonoyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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