DBMS > Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. Realm vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. Realm vs. TimesTen

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

realm.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hughes Technologies

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2008

1994

2014

1998

Current release

15585

7.2.4, September 2012

4.4, October 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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