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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyKinetica
Initial release2012201620142012
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
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 sourcenoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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