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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Rank	#105	Overall
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	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#336	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

swaydb.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2018

Current release

1.19.0, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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Recent citations in the news

Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
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30 January 2019, Business Wire

SQL-on-Hadoop tech Apache Drill is ready to use and part of MapR's distro
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