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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. H2GIS vs. KairosDB

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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

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.h2gis.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

EnterpriseDB

CNRS

Initial release

2008

2005

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

14, December 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

based on H2

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

simple password-based access control

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