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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. STSdb

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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.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

ravendb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hypertable Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2008

2009

2010

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.4, July 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license 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++

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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