DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. DolphinDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Graph Engine

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. DolphinDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Graph Engine

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Name

Description

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

DolphinDB 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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DolphinDB, Inc

Esgyn

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2015

2018

2015

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
Windows

Linux

.NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

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

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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