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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. gStore vs. MaxDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. gStore vs. MaxDB vs. TDengine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdben.gstore.cnmaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdben.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFoundationDBSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122013201619842019
Current release1.20.3, January 20236.2.28, November 20201.2, November 20237.9.10.12, February 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACID
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 sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Apache DrillFoundationDBgStoreMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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