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

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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StoragemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlopentsdb.netspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHughes Technologiescurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012199420112014
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.4, October 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 compliantA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenonono

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