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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. MaxDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

1984

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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