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DBMS > Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCirconus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2008201720132011
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaJava, SQLno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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