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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. EXASOL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. EXASOL vs. STSdb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsExasolSTS Soft SC
Initial release2012201520002011
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
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 sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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