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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbasex.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.basex.orgspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHSpotifyBaidu
Initial release2012200720142018
Current release1.20.3, January 202310.7, August 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesC++Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonovia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers, roles and permissions

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