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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. NuoDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

bigobject.io

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

doc.nuodb.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

Java, SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

simple password-based access control

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