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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. Riak KV vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. Riak KV vs. Titan

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent StoreKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph 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
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEvent Store LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122008201220092012
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 201221.2, February 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoErlangyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"yes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes 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 source
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes, using Riak SecurityUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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