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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Couchbase vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.couchbase.com

janusgraph.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.couchbase.com

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Couchbase, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2011

2017

2007

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

optionally

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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