DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. Quasardb

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hsqldb.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

quasardb

Initial release

2008

2010

2001

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.2, June 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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