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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HyperSQL vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HyperSQL vs. Solr

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorehsqldb.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2008200820012006
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.7.2, June 20239.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (GQL)yesSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App EngineJava, SQLJava plugins
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Callbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using Paxosnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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