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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDGraph LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20122017201620122017
Current release1.20.3, January 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC++GoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnolimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRoles, resources, and access types

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