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

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

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 CPUsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA 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 modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#318  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comwww.speedb.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyKineticaSpeedbByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20082014201220202016
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 Elasticsearchyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono
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DrizzleHeroicKineticaSpeedbTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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