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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Transbase

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDolphinDB 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 engineA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122013201820101987
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 2022v2.00.4, January 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++.NET and CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
.NETFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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 DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesnoyes
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 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 sourcenoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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