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DBMS > BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Quasardb

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.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 BigTableDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetquasardb
Initial release20152008201420082009
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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