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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. KairosDB vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docskairosdb.github.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201320002022
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.2.2, November 20183.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 compliantnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple password-based access controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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