DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Hawkular 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 model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.hawkular.org

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

2014

2008

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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