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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChris DavisCirconus LLC.Kinetica
Initial release20122005200620172012
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3.3, December 2023V0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangPythonC and C++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infolockingyesyes
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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