DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

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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

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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

Widely used RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.oracle.com/database

rockset.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.rockset.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle

Rockset

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2008

1980

2019

2001

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

23c, September 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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