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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.h2database.commachbase.commaxdb.sap.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerMachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Timescale
Initial release20122005201319842017
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 2023V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languageyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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 integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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