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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comquasar.aiwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaquasardbWakanda SAS
Initial release20122016201220092012
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.10, January 20227.1, August 20213.14.1, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes

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