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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

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	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

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

Website

drill.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

sqream.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

via file-system locks

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

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