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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Spark SQL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWidely used in-process key-value storeOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012199420072014
Current release1.20.3, January 202318.1.40, May 202014.1, August 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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