DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Drizzle vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Drizzle vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

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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

In-memory caching system

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kinetica

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2008

2012

2004

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.1.3, April 2022

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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