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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerExasolOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyOracle
Initial release20082000200220142007
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 201714.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodenoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definableauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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