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DBMS > Drizzle vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteen.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyKineticaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20082016201420122018
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.2, November 20237.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC, C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
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 integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access control

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