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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBFoundationDB
Initial release20122014201220132013
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019BangDB 2.0, October 20216.2.28, November 20202.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infosome layers support typingNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesnoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL like support with command line toolsupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes (enterprise version only)nosimple rights management via user accounts
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Apache DrillApache PhoenixBangdbFoundationDBInfluxDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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