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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IRONdb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IRONdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/surrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red HatCirconus LLC.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2008201420172022
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V0.10.20, January 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTHTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Lua
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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