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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. JSqlDb vs. MariaDB vs. Prometheus vs. TDengine

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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.JSqlDB 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.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.21
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitejsqldb.org (offline)mariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
prometheus.iogithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­libraryprometheus.io/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKonrad von BackstromMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release200820182009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 199520152019
Current release7.2.4, September 20120.8, December 201811.3.2, February 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC++C and C++GoC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3nono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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DrizzleJSqlDbMariaDBPrometheusTDengine
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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