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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. NCache

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	10.26
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

couchdb.apache.org

www.h2database.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

Alachisoft

Initial release

2012

2005

2008

2005

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

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

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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