DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2015

2011

2020

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

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