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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. QuestDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
questdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2013202320082014
Current release1.0, March 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemescheme-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTP
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BluefloodDragonflyDrizzleQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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