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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EventStoreDB vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Well established RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

developers.eventstore.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1991

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

21.2, February 2021

11.2, May 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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