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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
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
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoftOracle
Initial release20122006201420102007
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V1214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with always 3 replicas availableyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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