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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. LMDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.jaguardb.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationDataJaguar, Inc.Symas
Initial release201220162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20152011
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, January 20243.3 July 20230.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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 sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptrights management via user accountsno

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