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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. NCache vs. STSdb

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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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

Alachisoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2013

2005

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.3.3, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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 syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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