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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. ArcadeDB vs. Bangdb vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.bangdb.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Arcade Data

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2021

2012

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

September 2021

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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