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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Warp 10

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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.

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

SenX

Initial release

2010

2008

2014

2015

Current release

8.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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