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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Titan

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is 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 StorageMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent StoreRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEvent Store LimitedHEAVY.AI, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122008201220162012
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 201221.2, February 20215.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes 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 sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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