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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Infobright vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks

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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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.splunk.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Splunk Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2008

2005

2003

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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