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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Citus vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.citusdata.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.citusdata.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

8.1, December 2018

2.7.6, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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