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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. jBASE

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

Ultra-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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.harperdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

HarperDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2008

2013

2017

1991

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.1, August 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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