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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. TimesTen

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Thomas Mueller

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2005

1998

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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