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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Esgyn

CNRS

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

2013

2001

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Planned for future releases

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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