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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Ehcache vs. Geode vs. InfluxDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orggeode.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122009200220132016
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.10.0, March 20221.1, February 20172.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsno
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 indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++Java.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights per client and object definablesimple rights management via user accountsno
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Apache DrillEhcacheGeodeInfluxDBTerarkDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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