DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

drill.apache.org

galaxybase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2017

1989

2020

2015

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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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