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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Databricks vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.databricks.comdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDatabricksKineticaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122013201220171998
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.1, August 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantwith Databricks SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC++Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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