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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. SQLite vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. SQLite vs. Trino

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#122  Overall
#22  Document stores
#58  Relational DBMS
Score117.77
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score5.34
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.sqlite.orgtrino.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippTrino Software Foundation
Initial release201220002012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC++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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoSQL standard access control
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