DBMS > Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. MonetDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. MonetDB vs. TinkerGraph

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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.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.monetdb.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

Hyprcubd, Inc.

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2008

2013

2004

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (https)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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