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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 graphDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftTimescale
Initial release20122012201820102017
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 2021v2.00.4, January 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++.NET and CC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
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 modeyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)Administrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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