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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comrethinkdb.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.comrethinkdb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyKineticaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20082014201220092012
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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