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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
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	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

drill.apache.org

hbase.apache.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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