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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. EsgynDB vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.esgyn.cn

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Esgyn

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

2016

2008

2015

1984

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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