DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml

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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.

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

cachelot.io

www.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

Kinetica

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

2008

2012

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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