DBMS > Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

hbase.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Community supported by Red Hat

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2008

2014

2008

2013

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

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

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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)

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

yes

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