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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.89
Rank#121  Overall
#22  Document stores
#58  Relational DBMS
Score21.54
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201220132011
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.7.6, April 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accountsBased on Windows Authentication
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