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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBKineticaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122012201620122016
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20217.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,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 sourceyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)yesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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