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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#372  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score3.47
Rank#95  Overall
#16  Document stores
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.jaguardb.comravendb.netwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlravendb.net/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerExasolDataJaguar, Inc.Hibernating RhinosSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20082000201520102014
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.3 July 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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