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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. Transbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orghazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.nuodb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122008201020131987
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.3.6, November 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, SQLyes
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infotunable commit protocolyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyes
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 sourceyesnoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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