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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChris DavisMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2008200620162018
Current release7.2.4, September 201211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyesRole-based access control

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