DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2010

2022

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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