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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. gStore

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	1.82
Rank	#123	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#63	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#371	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Chris Davis

Initial release

2012

2006

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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