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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Graph Engine vs. Machbase Neo vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graph Engine vs. Machbase Neo vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iomachbase.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmachbase.com/­dbmsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftMachbaseQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2012201020132014
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storagenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple password-based access control
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Apache DrillGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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