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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. searchxml

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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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
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Spotifyinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122016201620142015
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
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 sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno infoPlanned for future releasesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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