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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.commachbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmachbase.com/­dbmshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMachbaseSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2012201620131992
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V8.0, August 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate 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 RethinkDBnoyes
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 infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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