DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

JavaScript DBMS library

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

drill.apache.org

greptime.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.greptime.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

2022

1989

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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