DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. MariaDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  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 CassandraMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.High performance Time Series DBMSMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score93.81
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iokx.commariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicode.kx.commariadb.com/­kb/­en/­library
DeveloperRackspaceDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Initial release201320082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.6, May 201811.3.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC++qC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic columns are supported
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (q)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioningseveral options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engine
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infowith MEMORY storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodDrizzleKdbMariaDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
» more
MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
» more
Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
» more
MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
» more
Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
» more
Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
» more
Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
» more
Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
» more
Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
» more
MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
» more
MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesNavicat for MariaDB provides a native environment for MariaDB database management and development.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
BluefloodDrizzleKdbMariaDB
DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL won the April ranking; did its forks follow?
1 April 2015, Paul Andlinger

Has MySQL finally lost its mojo?
1 July 2013, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

MariaDB strengthens its position in the open source RDBMS market
5 April 2018, Matthias Gelbmann

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Big gains for Relational Database Management Systems in DB-Engines Ranking
2 February 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Turbocharging the Engine: KX Unleashes AI-First Transformation with kdb+
28 February 2024, Business Wire

Introducing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a fully managed analytics engine, commonly used by capital ...
18 May 2023, AWS Blog

KX ANNOUNCES KDB INSIGHTS AS FULLY MANAGED SERVICE ON AMAZON FINSPACE
18 May 2023, PR Newswire

McLaren Applied and KX partner to enhance ATLAS software analytics capabilities
9 August 2023, Professional Motorsport World

KX Brings the Power and Performance of kdb+ to Python Developers with PyKX
7 June 2023, Datanami

provided by Google News

Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
19 February 2024, TechCrunch

Lender threatens to sweep MariaDB accounts over private equity bid
23 February 2024, The Register

MariaDB (NYSE:MRDB) Shares Up 2.4%
13 April 2024, Defense World

MariaDB Receives Takeover Bid | DealFlow's SPAC News
29 March 2024, DealFlow's SPAC News

Can MariaDB’s enterprise business be saved?
21 February 2024, InfoWorld

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

Present your product here