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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.datomic.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cognitect

Community supported by Red Hat

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2014

1999

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0.7180, July 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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