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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Graph Engine vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

machbase.com/dbms

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Microsoft

Machbase

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

2008

2010

2013

1984

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

Users and groups

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