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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

boilerbay.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Boiler Bay Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2010

2002

1987

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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