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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. FoundationDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. FoundationDB vs. NSDb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 StorageRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgpinot.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbnsdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orgapple.github.io/­foundationdbnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsFoundationDB
Initial release2012201520132017
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, September 20236.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyno
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 sourceyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceno

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