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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Dragonfly

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  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 graphDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.datastax.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBDataStaxDragonflyDB team and community contributors
Initial release2012201220112023
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20216.8, April 20201.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freescheme-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoLua
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes, strict serializability by the server
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 modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per objectPassword-based authentication
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Apache DrillBangdbDatastax EnterpriseDragonfly
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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