DBMS > Cassandra vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. MaxDB

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

geode.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

geode.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Softmotions

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

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2008

2012

2002

1984

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC

in-process shared library

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

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

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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 rights for users can be defined per object

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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