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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWell established RDBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgblazegraph.comgeospock.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBlazegraphGeoSpockActian CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release201220061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2009
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.1.5, March 20192.0, September 201911.2, May 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyes
TriggersnononoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes infoMVCC based
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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