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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. searchxml vs. TDengine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational 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
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsinformationpartners gmbhTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122013202320152019
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 20221.0, March 20231.03.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxWindowsLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuayes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
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 sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPassword-based authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DrillApache ImpalaDragonflysearchxmlTDengine
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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