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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. STSdb

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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.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2018

2008

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

using Google App Engine

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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