DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. MonetDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. MonetDB vs. Sadas Engine

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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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.monetdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

MonetDB BV

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2008

2010

2004

2006

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

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

ACID

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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