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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

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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.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.97
Rank	#146	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#353	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Toshiba Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2008

2013

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID at container level

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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