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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. OrientDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 scaleWell established RDBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#118  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score5.15
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score3.38
Rank#96  Overall
#17  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score2.81
Rank#110  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggeospock.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresorientdb.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockActian CorporationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20102009
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.0, September 201911.2, May 20223.2.29, March 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesJava, Javascript
TriggersnonoyesHooksClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes infoMVCC based
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes infousers and table-level permissions

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