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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. HyperSQL vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. HyperSQL vs. Kinetica

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comhsqldb.orgwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Kinetica
Initial release2008201720012012
Current release7.2.4, September 2012Nov 20, November 20212.7.2, June 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsJava, SQLuser defined functions
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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