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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Hive vs. Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hive vs. Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitehive.apache.orgkx.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecode.kx.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release200820122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320092015
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.1.3, April 20223.6, May 20183.2.0, December 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaqErlangC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'restrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsErlangyes infoon the application server
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infowith viewsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononomultiple readers, single writer
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsyes, using Riak SecurityDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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