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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. InfluxDB vs. RDFox

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20122015197920132017
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 20192.7.6, April 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDE.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accountsRoles, resources, and access types
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Apache DrillBigObjectdBASEInfluxDBRDFox
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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