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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. EXASOL vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	2.55
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#264	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.24
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#225	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

drill.apache.org

axibase.com/products/axibase-time-series-database

www.exasol.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/axibase/atsd

www.exasol.com/resources

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Exasol

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2013

2000

2004

Current release

1.18.0, September 2020

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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

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