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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2 vs. Splunk vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. VoltDB

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

Splunk Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

2005

2003

2018

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

v1.91, May 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Java

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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