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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB vs. XTDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clskairosdb.github.iowww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerInterSystemsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20082001201820132019
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.7.2, June 20232023.3, June 20231.2.2, November 20181.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLyesnono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple password-based access control
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DrizzleHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBInterSystems IRISKairosDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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