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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.Circonus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20082008201620172004
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20215.10, January 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++ and CUDAC and C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes, in Luayes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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