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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Trafodion

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgkylin.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoretrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docskylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoretrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncDolphinDB, IncGoogleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122015201820172014
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1.0, July 2020v2.00.4, January 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyesACID
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 sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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