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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Datomic vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.datomic.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.datomic.com

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cognitect

Mireo

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2020

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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