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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyActian CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release201220141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20142009
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.2, May 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnonoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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