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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

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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.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL 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.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

postgis.net

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2008

2014

1993

2005

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4-12

3.4.2, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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