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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 instanceWell established RDBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsActian CorporationGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201220231974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20142004
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0, March 202311.2, May 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuayesnoyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
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 infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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