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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. KairosDB

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2008

1991

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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 can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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