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DBMS > Drizzle vs. InfinityDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. InfinityDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ vs. Sqrrl

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  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.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comquasar.aiwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsqrrl.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­masterhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerBoiler Bay Inc.quasardbSAP, formerly SybaseAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20082002200919942012
Current release7.2.4, September 20124.03.14.1, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Serverselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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