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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GraphDB vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOntotextSpotifyKineticaApache Software Foundation
Initial release20082000201420122014
Current release7.2.4, September 201210.4, October 20237.1, August 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC, C++Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynouser defined functionsno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoConstraint checkingnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Access rights for users and roles on table levelno
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DrizzleGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMHeroicKineticaSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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