DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

geode.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

geode.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

SAP

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2008

2002

2010

2016

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

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