DBMS > Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ReductStore

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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.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

www.graphengine.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

1989

2023

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

C++

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

.NET

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

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 API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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