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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgbasex.orgblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablesqream.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHRackspaceGoogleSQream Technologies
Initial release20122007201320152017
Current release1.20.3, January 202310.7, August 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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