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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Geode vs. Splice Machine vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#99  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggeode.apache.orgsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Splice MachineByteDance, originally TerarkVaticle
Initial release20122002201420162016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.1, February 20173.1, March 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoJavanono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 sourceyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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