DBMS > Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. RethinkDB vs. XTDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. RethinkDB vs. XTDB vs. Yanza

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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.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

blueflood.io

rethinkdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Rackspace

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Juxt Ltd.

Yanza

Initial release

2013

2008

2009

2019

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.4.1, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Clojure
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

users and table-level permissions

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