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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. LMDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. LMDB vs. XTDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeDocument store
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
Score2.33
Rank#118  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSymasJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2012201620112019
Current release1.20.3, January 20230.9.32, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno

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