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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Galaxybase vs. IRONdb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

galaxybase.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Circonus LLC.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2017

1994

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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