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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. Kdb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.82
Rank#123  Overall
#22  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#63  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score7.10
Rank#48  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webkx.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iocode.kx.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChris DavisKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release201220062000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languagePythonq
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenorights management via user accounts

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