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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. ToroDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRackspaceDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKinetica8Kdata
Initial release20122013200820122016
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcenoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and roles

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