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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GreptimeDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

machbase.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

machbase.com/dbms

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Greptime Inc.

Machbase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2008

2022

2013

1992

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V8.0, August 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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