DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

splicemachine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Splice Machine

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.1, March 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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