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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. SAP HANA vs. XTDB

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

help.sap.com/hana

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

McObject

SAP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2001

2010

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.2, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

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