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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. RethinkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. XTDB

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

rethinkdb.com

www.tigergraph.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2013

2009

2017

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.4.1, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 (GSQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Role-based access control

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