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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financensdb.iosurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturesurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201320172022
Current release1.20.3, January 202315585v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
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 sourceyes, based on authentication and database rules

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