DBMS > Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2014

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

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