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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. Ignite

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignite.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122004200820142015
Current release1.20.3, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaJavaC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantStandard with numerous extensionsnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC++C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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