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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

MonetDB BV

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2004

1993

2001

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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