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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational 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
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcassandra.apache.orgwww.snowflake.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSnowflake Computing Inc.Simer PlahaTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122008201420182019
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.3, July 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"yesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
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 sourcenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoyes
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Apache DrillCassandraSnowflakeSwayDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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