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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Pinecone vs. Realm vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iorealm.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrealm.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationPinecone Systems, IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012201920142018
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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 indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++Python.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes 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 infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesRole-based access control

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