DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EDB Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EDB Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.enterprisedb.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

EnterpriseDB

Baidu

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2005

2018

2013

1992

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

14, December 2021

0.9

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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