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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

iotdb.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

1984

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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