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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. TerarkDB vs. YDB

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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

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.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

developers.eventstore.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Event Store Limited

ByteDance, originally Terark

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

2016

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Active-passive shard replication

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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