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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. H2 vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#119	Overall
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Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.h2database.com

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

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Thomas Mueller

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2008

2005

1984

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

using Google App Engine

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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