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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2022

2014

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users and Roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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