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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFoundationDBOracle
Initial release20122016201320112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.20.3, January 20236.2.28, November 202023.3, December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingoptionalyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlynouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourceyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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