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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. TimesTen 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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

kairosdb.github.io

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hazelcast

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2008

2013

1998

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

PL/SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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