DBMS > Apache Drill vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx

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Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

drill.apache.org

www.mcobject.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

McObject

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2001

2010

1984

2001

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

8.2, 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

HP Open VMS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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