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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiteWhere

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comen.gstore.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerExasolMicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release20082000201620102010
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.2, November 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyespredefined scheme
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesTransact SQL
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDno
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-standardUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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