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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. OrientDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language, no joins

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

no

Triggers

no

Hooks

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

relationship in graphs

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

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

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

users and table-level permissions

no

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