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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph vs. etcd vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph vs. etcd vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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.A distributed reliable key-value storeDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgblazegraph.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
cloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201220062010
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.1.5, March 20193.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesnono
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSPARQL is used as query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes, watching key changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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 sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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