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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2006

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Document is locked during a transaction

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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