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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. Teradata Aster

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA widely adopted in-memory data gridAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orghazelcast.comwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHazelcastBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Teradata
Initial release2012200819992005
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.3.6, November 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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 strategyyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsR packages
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
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 sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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