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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. etcd vs. IRONdb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.4, August 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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