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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgorientdb.orgquasar.aiswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPquasardbSimer Plaha
Initial release2012201020092018
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.2.29, March 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava, Javascriptnono
TriggersnoHooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocould be achieved with distributed querieswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
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 infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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