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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. Dgraph vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

dgraph.io

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

kylin.apache.org/docs

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Planned for future releases

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