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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. NebulaGraph

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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 distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#121	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#213	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.61
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

using RocksDB

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

Role-based access control

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