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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2014

2001

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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