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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Dgraph vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Dgraph vs. OpenTSDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series 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
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgiotdb.apache.orgdgraph.ioopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldgraph.io/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012201820162011
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.1.0, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)yesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno infoPlanned for future releasesno

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