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

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

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Full-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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2014

2008

2005

2012

1995

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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