DBMS > Drizzle vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SurrealDB

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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.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2008

2009

2014

2012

2022

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.9.8.11, March 2016

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic 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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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