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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockSybase, SAP
Initial release201220161993
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesnotemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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