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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EventStoreDB vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EventStoreDB vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA 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
Event StoreVector DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comwww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEvent Store LimitedPinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122012201920012016
Current release1.20.3, January 202321.2, February 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleannono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++PythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenono

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