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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. H2GIS vs. KeyDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.keydb.dev

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CNRS

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2013

2019

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

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

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

yes

based on H2

simple password-based access control and ACL

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