DBMS > BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. ITTIA vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. ITTIA vs. mSQL

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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.

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

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.ittia.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Circonus LLC.

ITTIA L.L.C.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

2008

2017

2007

1994

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.7

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Database file passwords

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