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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. Kinetica vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. Kinetica vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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.
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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orghsqldb.orgwww.kinetica.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.kinetica.comdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaSQream Technologies
Initial release20122008200120122017
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20122.7.2, June 20237.1, August 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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