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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageSpatial extension of H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCNRSMicrosoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2012201320152013
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infobased on H2noJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infobased on H2yes infousing Azure authenticationStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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