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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. GeoMesa vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. GeoMesa vs. Titan

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.geomesa.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationCCRi and othersAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122016200820142012
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.0, January 20215.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonedepending on storage layeryes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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