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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GreptimeDB vs. RDF4J vs. XTDB

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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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

greptime.com

rdf4j.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Greptime Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2022

2004

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

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

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Simple rights management via user accounts

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