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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. gStore

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. gStore

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.bigchaindb.comen.gstore.cn
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesten.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationAxibase Corporation
Initial release20122014201320162016
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019155851.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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