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DBMS > Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.kinetica.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationKineticaSiteWhere
Initial release200820101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20122010
Current release7.2.4, September 201211.2, May 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangCC, C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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