DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Actian Corporation

Embarcadero

Kyligence, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2016

1995

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.2, May 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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