DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. openGauss vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. openGauss vs. SiteWhere

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Hughes Technologies

Huawei and openGauss community

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2014

1994

2019

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Java

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

ANSI SQL 2011

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

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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