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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Faircom DB vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Faircom DB vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRDF store
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.pinecone.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFairCom CorporationPinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2012197920192004
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
PythonJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesno

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