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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EsgynDB vs. Heroic vs. OceanBase vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicen.oceanbase.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEsgynSpotifyOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20122015201420102019
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored ProceduresnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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