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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.graphengine.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2008

2010

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

.NET

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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