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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HarperDB vs. MariaDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.harperdb.io

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

rockset.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

HarperDB

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.1, August 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, using LMDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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