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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Splice Machine

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablesplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSoftmotionsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleSplice Machine
Initial release20082012200220152014
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20173.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCin-process shared libraryJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoyes infoJava
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes, 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 controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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