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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. Hive

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. Hive

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeode.apache.orgwww.h2database.comhive.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgeode.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Thomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20142008200220052012
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20172.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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