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DBMS > Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEsgynCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release19992008201520142008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava Stored Proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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