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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TDengine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Widely used in-process key-value storeTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122016199219942019
Current release1.20.3, January 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201918.1.40, May 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
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 infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noyes
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Apache DrillBigchainDBMicrosoft AccessOracle Berkeley DBTDengine
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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