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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. Faircom DB vs. NuoDB vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn embedded key-value store for Go.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequestdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldoc.nuodb.comquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFairCom CorporationDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122013197920132014
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoANSI C, C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++Go.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Java, SQLno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyestunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID infotunable commit protocolACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes infoTemporary tableyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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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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