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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2023

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access Control Lists

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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