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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. ArangoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. ArangoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score3.30
Rank#82  Overall
#14  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#10  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgarangodb.comwww.geomesa.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.arangodb.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperApache Software FoundationArangoDB Inc.CCRi and othersTobias OetikerDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20122012201419992000
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.11.5, November 20235.0.1, July 20241.8.0, 20223.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesNumeric data onlyyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptnonono
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infosince version 2.0depending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factordepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
depending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcedepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenono
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Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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