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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. DolphinDB vs. GridDB vs. Trafodion

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational 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
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgkylin.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comgriddb.nettrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docskylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.griddb.nettrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncDolphinDB, IncToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122015201820132014
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1.0, July 2020v2.00.4, January 20225.1, August 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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 languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes
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
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID at container levelACID
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 sourcenoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Apache DrillApache KylinDolphinDBGridDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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