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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEmbarcaderoOpenNMS GroupquasardbSplunk Inc.
Initial release20081984201420092003
Current release7.2.4, September 2012InterBase 2020, December 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonoyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and roles

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