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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Spotify

Baidu

Vaticle

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2018

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

0.9

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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