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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsKinetica
Initial release2012201620232012
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0, March 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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 indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuauser defined functions
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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