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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2009

2018

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

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 journaling

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, using Riak Security

Role-based access control

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