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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. WakandaDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed Database based on LuceneAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcratedb.comgreenplum.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscratedb.com/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCratePivotal Software Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release2012201320052012
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.0.0, September 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions (Javascript)yesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcerights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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