DBMS > Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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.

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Gigaspaces Technologies

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2000

2006

2013

2023

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Python

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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