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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Machbase Neo vs. Realm vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

machbase.com

realm.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

machbase.com/dbms

realm.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Machbase

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

informationpartners gmbh

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2015

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V8.0, August 2023

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

simple password-based access control

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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