DBMS > Apache Drill vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

yanza.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Spotify

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2007

2014

2015

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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