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

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

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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.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Rank	#383	Overall
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Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

Hypertable Inc.

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2013

2009

2019

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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