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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Hive vs. Realm vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

realm.io/docs

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C++

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

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