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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Qdrant vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Qdrant vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerExasolOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)QdrantTimescale
Initial release20082000198420212017
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.4.1.1, 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++RustC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
HP Open VMSDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleannumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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