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DBMS > Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. SQL.JS

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial extension of H2Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Serverless Time Series DBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.harperdb.iohyprcubd.com (offline)sql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.harperdb.io/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSHarperDBHyprcubd, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2008201320172012
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaNode.jsGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
gRPC (https)JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Custom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolestoken accessno

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