DBMS > Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Sphinx

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2010

2014

2001

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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