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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. MarkLogic vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.marklogic.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.marklogic.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

MarkLogic Corp.

Hughes Technologies

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2001

1994

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, December 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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