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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.80
Rank	#118	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	27.36
Rank	#30	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2005

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.3.4, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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