DBMS > 4D vs. Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hughes Technologies

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

1984

2008

1994

2014

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

4.4, October 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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