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

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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

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#189	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.h2database.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

Alachisoft

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2012

2008

2005

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

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

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

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.

Secondary indexes

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.

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

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

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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