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

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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic 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 BigDataDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggreenplum.orgwww.h2database.commachbase.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationPivotal Software Inc.Thomas MuellerMachbasequasardb
Initial release20122005200520132009
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 2023V8.0, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
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 factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesnoyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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