DBMS > Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

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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.

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

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

Website

geospock.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

GeoSpock

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2016

1994

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0, September 2019

5.10, January 2022

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Round robin

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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