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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

2020

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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