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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. OpenTSDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlopentsdb.net
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hughes Technologiescurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20082008201619942011
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20215.10, January 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++ and CUDACJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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