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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB vs. Solr vs. SurrealDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewsolr.apache.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20082015201320062022
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.7.6, April 20249.6.1, May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava plugins
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsyesyes, based on authentication and database rules
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DrizzleGoogle Cloud BigtableInfluxDBSolrSurrealDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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