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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Tarantool vs. TimescaleDB vs. Vitess

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.tarantool.iowww.timescale.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.timescale.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationVKTimescaleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200820172013
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, January 20242.10.0, May 20222.15.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimenumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Open binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLLua, C and SQL stored proceduresuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistencenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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