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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. Citus vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. Citus vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.citusdata.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.citusdata.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoft
Initial release2012201220102015
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20218.1, December 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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