DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2010

1989

2010

2006

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java plugins

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

optimistic locking

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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