DBMS > Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Linter vs. Oracle vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Linter vs. Oracle vs. TigerGraph

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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.

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

linter.ru

www.oracle.com/database

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

relex.ru

Oracle

Initial release

2008

1990

1980

2017

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.3.4, January 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

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++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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'

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

Role-based access control

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