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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. NCache vs. TDengine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 dataA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational DBMS
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
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsElasticAlachisoftTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122012201020052019
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20248.6, January 20235.3.3, April 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoNotificationsyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcenoMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes
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Apache DrillApache DruidElasticsearchNCacheTDengine
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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TDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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