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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2011

2015

2000

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

23.3, December 2023

1.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

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

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