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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Kuzu vs. MonetDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#402  Overall
#41  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netkuzudb.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netdocs.kuzudb.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChris DavisToshiba CorporationMonetDB BV
Initial release20122006201320222004
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.1, August 20220.4.2, May 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoMIT licenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linuxserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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 compliantnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at container levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Apache DrillGraphiteGridDBKuzuMonetDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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