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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Infobright vs. Rockset

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.rockset.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2015

2008

2005

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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

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