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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

drill.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rockset.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Hughes Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2014

1994

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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