DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2000

2010

2004

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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