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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableRDBMS for high security requirementsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orghbase.apache.orglinter.rusolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetrelex.ruOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122008199020092006
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 20229.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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 indexesnonoyesrestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLErlangJava plugins
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityyes

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