DBMS > Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Oracle

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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.

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

GeoSpock

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1980

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0, September 2019

11.2, May 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per table

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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