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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GraphDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. KeyDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  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.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
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Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.keydb.dev
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOntotextCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release20082000201420082019
Current release7.2.4, September 201210.4, October 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROpartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnonoyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaLua
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoConstraint checkingnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
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, HTTPDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.noAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access control and ACL
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DrizzleGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMHawkular MetricsHBaseKeyDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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