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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTablePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTeradata
Initial release20122006200820052009
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaR packagesno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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