DBMS > Drizzle vs. Geode vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Geode vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2002

2016

2013

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

5.10, January 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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