DBMS > Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Oracle vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Oracle vs. Teradata

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Widely used RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

hbase.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Community supported by Red Hat

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2014

2008

1980

1984

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.3.4, January 2021

23c, September 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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