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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Baidu

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2012

2016

2018

1994

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

0.9

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Users, roles and permissions

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