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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Citus vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Citus vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybigobject.iowww.citusdata.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iodocs.citusdata.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsBigObject, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20122016201520102019
Current release1.20.3, January 202317038.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.noyesnoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAPfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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 sourceyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceLDAP bind authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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