DBMS > Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB 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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Microsoft

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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