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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Pinecone vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.pinecone.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2012198920192017
Current release1.20.3, January 2023SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
PythonC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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