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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL vs. Transbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orghbase.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetCirconus LLC.Hughes TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122008201719941987
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.3.4, January 2021V0.10.20, January 20184.4, October 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in Luanoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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