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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Lovefield vs. Qdrant vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Lovefield vs. Qdrant vs. Solr

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
solr.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdqdrant.tech/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleGoogleQdrantApache Software Foundation
Initial release20082015201420212006
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.1.12, February 20179.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptRustJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava plugins
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noUsing read-only observersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
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 zonesnoneCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
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, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
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)noKey-based authenticationyes

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