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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  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.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orgignite.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20082012200820092015
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++C++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJDBCin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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