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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitedgraph.iocloud.google.com/­spannerwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20162008201720142008
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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