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DBMS > Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL 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 TransactionsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Wide column storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.compouchdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGigaspaces TechnologiesHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20082000200920122018
Current release7.2.4, September 201215.5, September 20200.9.8.11, March 20167.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetC++JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes, event driven architecturenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access controlnonoRole-based access control

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