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DBMS > Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. SwayDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 simplicityDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rethinkdb.comwww.risingwave.com/­databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCirconus LLC.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RisingWave LabsSimer Plaha
Initial release20082017200920222018
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V0.10.20, January 20182.4.1, August 20201.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++RustScala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryStandard SQL-types and JSONno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers and Rolesno

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