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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.74
Rank#128  Overall
#24  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#263  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
Score6.35
Rank#54  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgduckdb.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orgduckdb.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributors
Initial release201220152018
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, September 20231.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceno

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