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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Memgraph

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
memgraph.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.heavy.aimemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20122015201620092017
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesnononorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DrillGoogle Cloud BigtableHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HypertableMemgraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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