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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Greenplum vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Greenplum vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggreenplum.orgwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.kinetica.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationPivotal Software Inc.Hypertable Inc.KineticaOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122005200920122009
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.0.0, September 20230.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcenoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes, using Riak Security

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