DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. SingleStore

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

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 model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2008

2010

2016

1994

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.10, January 2022

4.4, October 2021

8.5, January 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

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++, Go

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

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

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All 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

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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