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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgblueflood.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRackspaceQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012201320142009
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesnononorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
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 infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes, using Riak Security
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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