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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchquestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122015201420112018
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V14.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneJournaling Streams
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 integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousing Azure authenticationnoRole-based access control
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Apache DrillMicrosoft Azure AI SearchQuestDBSTSdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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