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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IBM Db2 vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
RDF store
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Score1.86
Rank#128  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score122.77
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20121983 infohost version2018
Current release1.20.3, January 202312.1, October 201611.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes 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 source
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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Apache DrillIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2TerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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