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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmemgraph.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmemgraph.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Memgraph LtdDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012201020172018
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsRole-based access control
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Apache DrillIBM CloudantMemgraphTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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