DBMS > Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

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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.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.gigaspaces.com

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Elastic

Gigaspaces Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2008

2010

2000

2012

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.6, January 2023

15.5, September 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

yes

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