DBMS > Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sqrrl

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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.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

bangdb.com

machbase.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.bangdb.com

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Altibase

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Machbase

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2008

2013

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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