DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. Cubrid vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. Cubrid vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2014

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

15585

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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