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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graph Engine vs. Machbase Neo

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
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.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.graphengine.iomachbase.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncGoogleMicrosoftMachbase
Initial release20122018201720102013
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v2.00.4, January 2022V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted.NETLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noSQL-like query language
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
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyesno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 storageno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access control

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