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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. GridGain vs. H2

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas Mueller
Initial release20122018201020072005
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v2.00.4, January 2022GridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, GroupsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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