DBMS > Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kinetica.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.kinetica.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

Kinetica

Amazon Web Services

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2014

2012

2021

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

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, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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