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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. Sequoiadb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational 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
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgopentsdb.netquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20122011200920152013
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binarynoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageyes, limitedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC++Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoErlangJavaScript
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
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 infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnosimple password-based access control

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