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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Graph Engine vs. HyperSQL vs. Spark SQL

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

hsqldb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2010

2001

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.2, June 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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