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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerExasolKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20082000201220042012
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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