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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. mSQL vs. OceanBase vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. mSQL vs. OceanBase vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata Aster

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StoragemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlen.oceanbase.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHughes TechnologiesOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.Teradata
Initial release20121994201020012005
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.4, October 20214.3.0, April 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenoR packages
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using Paxosnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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