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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storagedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orghive.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software Foundationquasardb
Initial release201220122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122009
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1.3, April 202210 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infointeger and binary
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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