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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Pinecone vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HBase vs. Pinecone vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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.
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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPinecone Systems, IncSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2008200820191992
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
PythonC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
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-standard

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