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DBMS > Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20082013201020122019
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonodynamic 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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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