DBMS > Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tarantool

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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

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/hana

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Exasol

SAP

Initial release

2008

2000

2013

2010

2008

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.6, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Appliance or cloud-service

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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