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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storagedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime 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
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedrill.apache.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.Alex KashirinAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122012200920202012
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 20160.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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