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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA multi-model DBMS and application serverNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.intersystems.comdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMInterSystemsDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2012201719972013
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.02018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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