DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. WakandaDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/spotify/heroic

objectbox.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2017

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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