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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggeospock.comwww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release2012200720142014
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.0, September 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnono

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