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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbigobject.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iodocs.heavy.aidoc.nuodb.comqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Qdrant
Initial release20122015201620132021
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuanoJava, SQL
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robindata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersKey-based authentication

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