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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oxford Semantic Technologies

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++

C
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

replication via a shared file system

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Roles, resources, and access types

yes, using Riak Security

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