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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.CCRi and othersDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20122016201620142015
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, May 20243.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoScalaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcedepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagerights management via user accounts

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