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DBMS > Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright vs. Rockset

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial extension of H2An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSHypertable Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Rockset
Initial release20082013200920052019
Current release7.2.4, September 20120.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesdynamic 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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBCC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2selectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on H2nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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