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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

15585

8.11.4, April 2024

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

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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