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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Trino

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score1.89
Rank#122  Overall
#22  Document stores
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.34
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgtrino.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20122012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourcedepending 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 source
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceSQL standard access control
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