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

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

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

phoenix.apache.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

2023

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1.2, November 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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