DBMS > Drizzle vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FairCom Corporation

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

SAP

Initial release

2008

1979

2014

2009

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V3, October 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

integer and binary

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.