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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial 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
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHazelcastSpotifyKinetica
Initial release2012200820142012
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.3.6, November 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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