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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memcached vs. RisingWave

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.memcached.org

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2008

2010

2003

2022

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.6.27, May 2024

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users and Roles

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