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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. SingleStore

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.37
Rank#278  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.postgresql.fastware.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologySpotifyTobias OetikerSingleStore Inc.
Initial release2008201419992013
Current release7.2.4, September 2012Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20221.8.0, 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashShardingnoneSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesnoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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DrizzleFujitsu Enterprise PostgresHeroicRRDtoolSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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