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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Dgraph vs. GridGain vs. Ingres vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWell established RDBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.gridgain.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdgraph.io/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.Actian CorporationDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2012201620071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2013
Current release1.20.3, January 2023GridGain 8.5.111.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslydata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyes (replicated cache)Ingres Replicatoryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceno infoPlanned for future releasesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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