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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgopentsdb.netrockset.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRocksetApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201120192014
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseAutomatic shardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
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 sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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