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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FeatureBase vs. Graphite vs. OpenTSDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.featurebase.comgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012201720062011
Current release1.20.3, January 20232022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC++Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
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 sourcenono

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