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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.datomic.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datomic.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRackspaceCognitectOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012201320122009
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.7075, December 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsErlang
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
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 inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenonoyes, using Riak Security

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