DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EsgynDB vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

hsqldb.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

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

Initial release

2012

2015

2001

2013

2004

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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