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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS vs. Vitess

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasevitess.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdoc.nuodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122008201320152013
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20123.0.0, September 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes, limitedyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLErlangyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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