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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Dgraph vs. Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdgraph.io/­docsdocs.firebolt.iodocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release20122016202020162009
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
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 sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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