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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwarePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.jaguardb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHEAVY.AI, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.KineticaMonetDB BV
Initial release20082016201520122004
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.10, January 20223.3 July 20237.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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