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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bangdb.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

SAP

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes (enterprise version only)

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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