DBMS > Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Raima Database Manager

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Raima Database Manager

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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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

raima.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.raima.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2008

2012

2013

1989

1984

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.6, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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