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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. Citus vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. Citus vs. Interbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.citusdata.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iodocs.citusdata.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Embarcadero
Initial release20122012201520101984
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20248.1, December 2018InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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