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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storequasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release2012201720092010
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
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 storageyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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