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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed reliable key-value storeSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
geospock.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockCirconus LLC.
Initial release201220172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.4, August 20192.0, September 2019V0.10.20, January 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonotemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBCHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID infoMVCC
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 sourcenononono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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