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DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  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.
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionSpatial extension of H2
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score6.31
Rank#57  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisedgraph.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdgraph.io/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperDataStaxDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEsgynCNRS
Initial release20112016200820152013
Current release6.8, April 20207.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Proceduresyes infobased on H2
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"yesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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