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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
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 instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012202320142010
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoOptimistic locking
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 sourceyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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