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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncEnterpriseDBMicrosoftHypertable Inc.
Initial release20122018200520102009
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v2.00.4, January 202214, December 20210.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community version availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C.NET and CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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