DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Databend vs. EventStoreDB vs. Oracle vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Databend vs. EventStoreDB vs. Oracle vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Widely used RDBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.eventstore.com

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.databend.com

developers.eventstore.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Databend Labs

Event Store Limited

Oracle

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2021

2012

1980

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0.59, April 2023

21.2, February 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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