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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.monetdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CCRi and others

MonetDB BV

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2014

2004

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0.5, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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