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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. QuestDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbmanticoresearch.comopennms.github.io/­newtsquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSoftmotionsManticore SoftwareOpenNMS GroupQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20082012201720142014
Current release7.2.4, September 20126.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.Can index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCin-process shared libraryBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnonono
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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