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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 assetsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
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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
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comen.gstore.cnsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesten.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122014201620162022
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2, November 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 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) supportedyes, based on authentication and database rules

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