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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA relational database management system that stores data in columnsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMonetDB BVRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20122012200320041993
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.1, August 20211.6.25, March 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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