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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hsqldb.orgwww.jaguardb.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aihsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHEAVY.AI, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Kinetica
Initial release20082016200120152012
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.10, January 20222.7.2, June 20233.3 July 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLnouser defined functions
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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