DBMS > Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

fauna.com

rocksdb.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Fauna, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2008

2014

2013

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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