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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Datomic vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb

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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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.datomic.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cognitect

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++

Clojure
Java

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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