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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release2012201620122008
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
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 inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTP

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