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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. PostgreSQL vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	644.36
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.postgresql.org

trino.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.postgresql.org/docs

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

16.4, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

More information provided by the system vendor

News

64: Control with Open Policy Agent OPA
22 August 2024

63: Querying with JS
1 August 2024

62: A lakehouse that simply works at Prezi
11 July 2024

Announcing Trino Summit 2024
11 July 2024

Trino Fest 2024 recap
24 June 2024

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