DBMS > Drizzle vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica

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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.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Actian Corporation

Konrad von Backstrom

Kinetica

Initial release

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

12.0, July 2024

0.8, December 2018

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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