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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Splice Machine vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Splice Machine vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgsplicemachine.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSplice MachineTeradata
Initial release2012201420052017
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoJavaR packagesyes
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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