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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Infobright vs. NuoDB vs. openGauss vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Infobright vs. NuoDB vs. openGauss vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdoc.nuodb.comdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Huawei and openGauss communitySiteWhere
Initial release20122005201320192010
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C, C++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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 sourceyesyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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