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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. gStore

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. gStore

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  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 HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeen.gstore.cn
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationFairCom Corporation
Initial release20122014201619792016
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V3, October 20201.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infowhen using SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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