DBMS > Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kinetica

Alachisoft

SAP

Initial release

2008

2016

2012

2005

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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