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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2010

1999

1984

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V8.0, August 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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