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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A multi-model DBMS and application serverTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemachbase.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.intersystems.commachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerInterSystemsMachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20122005199720131984
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 20232018.1.4, May 2020V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC++JavaC#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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