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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgpostgis.netrealm.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019MireoSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122005201420202011
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyesno

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