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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. InfinityDB vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 instanceA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceTime Series DBMS based on CassandraLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
boilerbay.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsBoiler Bay Inc.OpenNMS GroupSybase, SAP
Initial release20122023200220141993
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0, March 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST
Java API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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
JavaJavaDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuanonoyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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 sourceyesnonono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePassword-based authenticationnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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