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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Machbase Neo

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineCloud-based data warehousing serviceTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemachbase.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftIBMMachbase
Initial release20122018201020142013
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 availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
.NEThostedLinux
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-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
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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