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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kinetica.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.kinetica.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kinetica

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

2010

2012

1993

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

3.4-12

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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