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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. DuckDB vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial extension of H2Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.harperdb.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSHarperDB
Initial release20082018201320172009
Current release7.2.4, September 20120.10, February 20243.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2Custom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infobased on H2yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDBoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolesno

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