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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Community supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocket Software
Initial release20082002201420081985
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20172.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROoptional
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definablenoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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