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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. atoti vs. EDB Postgres vs. Graphite vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#242  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#122  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgatoti.iowww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.atoti.iowww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationActiveViamEnterpriseDBChris DavisSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2012200520061992
Current release1.20.3, January 202314, December 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree versions availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCPython
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPythonuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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