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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph vs. GridGain vs. MonetDB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph vs. GridGain vs. MonetDB vs. OrientDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA relational database management system that stores data in columnsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.gridgain.comwww.monetdb.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBlazegraphGridGain Systems, Inc.MonetDB BVOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20122006200720042010
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.1.5, March 2019GridGain 8.5.1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSPARQL is used as query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in SQL, C, RJava, Javascript
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Security Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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