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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEmbarcaderoGoogleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122013198420142013
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.7.6, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoJava, SQL
TriggersnonoyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyInterbase Change Viewsnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
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 infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infousing MemoryDByes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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Apache DrillInfluxDBInterbaseLovefieldNuoDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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