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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kinetica
Initial release2012201820102012
Current release1.20.3, January 20230.97.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesvia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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 sourceUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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