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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. Titan

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
geospock.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeoSpockThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2012202320092012
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0, March 20232.0, September 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuanoyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding inforange basedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousers and table-level permissionsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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