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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemachbase.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Machbase
Initial release2012201620122013
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access control

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